10 places to get the best Santa photo

The annual Santa photo is a great way to capture how your children grow and change each year.

Help make sure the photo is a success by maybe popping in and seeing Santa a few days prior, choose a quiet time so your kids aren’t rushed and don’t forget to wear something yourself that you are happy to have pulled out every year and exclaimed over, just in case you need to hold your child next to Santa to get the photo.

Find your nearest friendly Santa from the list below.

#1: Highbury Shopping Centre, Birkenhead, Auckland

Santa will be in Highbury Shopping Centre daily from 10am to 2pm, 8 to 24 December 2018.

Come and have your annual Santa photo taken and enjoy some of the other seasonal offerings at Highbury.

The first 100 children to visit Santa will get a lucky dip prize!

This Christmas at Highbury Shopping Centre you can also:

Write Santa a letter

Listen to Birkdale North Music Centre performing Christmas music at 10am, 9 December 2018

11 Comments

A timeless tradition in many families. We love getting one each year with our two boys though I think soon it will be harder to get one with the eldest boy. Its a great way of seeing how your children grow each year

Surprised not to see the North City one, I remembered seeing a queue for a photo picture taking with Santa. We don’t do Santa photos though. My 3 year old son isn’t wanting to take a photo with Santa and we prefer just saving money for a photo op for his gifts. But I do see some families who enjoy having a photo op especially with grandparents too.

Great to know. We got to chch bit late we went on boxing day. But we did go to pak n save at northtown mall in Timaru and found that great they would let you take your own photos and each child gets lollies, a present and a balloon. The kids thought it was wonderful

Before we moved, where we used to live in Te Awamutu they had a man play Santa every year (they still do) and they make a Santa’s Grotto, it’s all decorated and looks very magical and all the kids in town go and get a photo and a toy from Santa, usually a soft toy that had been donated. It’s all very lovely except for the fact that the man who plays Santa is my dad, my kids Grandad, so we haven’t had Santa photos for years as my kids insist on telling all of the other kids that ‘Santa is my Grandad’ which either ruins it for the others or results in fits of jealousy from kids who want their grandad to be Santa too.

Great to see a range of options here but as we live in Wanganui, we are restricted to just the two options either at our local shopping centre or Harvey Norman. We always go to Harvey Norman and purchase a basic package which suits us well 🙂

My daughter has never been interested in getting a photo with Santa haha. I’m certainly not going to make her sit on his knee if she doesn’t want to 🙂 I did ask her this year if she wanted to do a Santa photo and she didn’t jump at it haha

This is great to know about the different places to visit Santa and ones you can give money , a gift or be given a book for your child. We are a small rural town so get what we can get without going to the city to see Santa and the kids are happy.

I would like to also add another to the list as its where we usually take our kids each year. Northlands Mall in cHristchurch. The Santa there is so friendly and the packages are quite handy. Also the pics are great and every child gets a brilliant story book. This year is a book by Margaret Mahy.

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